E’s Reviews > Slouching Towards Bethlehem > Status Update

'The way you love the first person who ever touches and and never quite love anyone in that way again'

Again just an extremely odd view to be passed along as a given that one can generalize to an entire population

If a partner thought like this it would be an immediate deal breaker for any sort of relationship

'Los Angeles? Oh people think the weather is nice but it's actually a hellscape with fire and 100+ mph winds and any time it's nice people just are ignorant re: how close to catastrophe they are'

I'm sensing a pattern with this author

Letters from Paradise

'Everything everyone else talks about is so frivolous and superficial. They can't understand me'

(while those the author implicitly feels above the entire time are, ironically, portrayed as much happier and more well-adjusted)

Visiting Hawaii? Let's discuss the most morose topic (Pearl Harbor) the entire time and somehow turn an island vacation into an exercise in depression

-Sentence-level craft is very good
-A bit too neurotic / depressive / introspective in ways that don't resonate with me, or feel pseudo intellectual, but hearing a well-written voice like that is interesting in a sort of observational way
-Topical non-fic was better so far (eg title essay was quite good)